The ECAC has handed out more discipline to the Union and RPI hockey coaches over Saturday night's brawl at Times Union Center.

The league added two games to Union coach Rick Bennett's suspension, increasing the total to four, and also suspended RPI coach Seth Appert for one game.

The additional suspensions were announced Wednesday night, just two days after the league said it wouldn't suspend Appert and that it accepted the two games Union had suspended Bennett on Sunday.

"ECAC Hockey has continued to review the entire situation that occurred Saturday," ECAC commissioner Steve Hagwell said in a statement. "After additional review and consideration, and discussions with league administrators, additional sanctions have been assessed."

"The league members pride themselves on adhering to the highest level of sportsmanship. Those objectives were not attained Saturday."

Appert will not be behind the bench Friday, when the Engineers play at St. Lawrence. Bennett will miss this coming weekend's games against Clarkson and St. Lawrence as well as games Feb. 7 and 8 against Brown and Yale.

YouTube videos shot from the stands show Bennett and Appert on the ice after RPI's 2-1 victory, with Bennett approaching Appert, shouting at him with his fist cocked, as fights among players were going on.

Neither coach has said what prompted the altercation, but both apologized immediately after the game. Union even held an informal news conference Monday during which both Bennett and several players apologized again.

Union and RPI both released statements Wednesday night accepting the league's decision.

"As we have stated previously, we regret the incident," Union's statement said. "At this point, our focus is on moving forward."

RPI's statement said: "ECAC Hockey has taken the action it feels is necessary, and we fully support the decision of the league."

The ECAC didn't add to any players' suspensions.

Union will be without senior captain Mat Bodie for both games this weekend. He was given an automatic one-game suspension for his disqualification penalty and an additional one-game suspension Monday by the league. Also for the Dutchmen, junior forward Daniel Ciampini will sit out Friday's game after the ECAC gave him a one-game suspension Monday. Freshman forward Eli Lichtenwald will miss the game because he was given a game disqualification penalty.

For RPI, junior forward Ryan Haggerty, the team's leading scorer (19 goals, 11 assists, 30 points), and senior defenseman Bo Dolan are out for Friday's game at Clarkson, as are junior defenseman Luke Curadi and sophomore forward Mike Zalewski.